Lab Hours

I assume these are still due and since I've done way over the required number for it I'm absolutely posting them.

1 hour and 45 minutes docenting.  Nobody really came in, but that was the day we all opened our cases and did measurements.
45 minutes in the exhibit measuring my objects yesterday and making sure I had the right numbers for each of them.
An hour and a half on Tuesday writing down everything I knew about my objects already and photocopying some of my references
About 2 hours on Thursday researching my objects and trying to write them in my notebook for how the worksheet has everything laid out
About 2 and a half hours working on Sunday trying to continue to find scholarly resources
A little over 3 hours last night finalizing everything, entering it into the worksheets, and looking up sources.
About 20 minutes this morning printing everything off and making sure I had everything put together.

In all honesty there was probably more hours put in but I can't remember what happened this week or what happened last week at this point so that's how many I am going with.  There might even be more just from this morning since I am supposed to meet Nancy to get another source for the Matchbox Bean Pods, but we will see if I make it there in time. 

Welp... that might be it.. hours of digging

Hours of digging and this is essentially all I have found. I guess I will have to let that suffice.  I'll probably put in a last stitch effort in the morning but I have got to get to bed


Card Case

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/207431?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=mother+of+pearl+card+case&pos=7

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/163090.html?mulR=1206545673|1

Dancing Balls

http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!64691~!0#focus

http://anthro.amnh.org/objectlist.html?object_list=80.0%2F+4459

http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/public_access.cfm?oject_list=80.0%2F+5623

Heart Shaped Box

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/207416?rpp=20&pg=2&ao=on&ft=silver+box&where=Germany&pos=37

http://www.silvercollection.it/germansilverhallmark23.html

I don't know who has the skirt (Nancy??)

AMNH Object: SKIRT [80.0/ 785 *]



This looked like a pretty good representation of one of the skirts which sadly is not one of my objects.  I know it's pretty late and whoever has it probably doesn't need this, but i thought I would post it anyways just in case 

Proving to be difficult.. don't mind me I'm just venting

I swear with the amount of time I have put into all of these you would think I would be farther.. I just feel like my sources aren't good or I don't have catalog pictures of them if I find other scholarly sources mentioning them.  I was doing so well with the Northwest Coast Paddles and now I'm basically taking any mention of the other objects
74-2-48 Spain Card Case
sure it's a calling card case. and sure it's super easy to find similar looking things in auctions.  but they are auctions and thus not scholarly sources. 
74-2-20 Heart Shaped Box
Made in Germany. By Simon Rosenau. In Jean's travelogue for when she got it.  That's what I've got.  That's it. No catalog or pretty pictures unless you count the one I found on ebay which sadly does not work
74-2-45 New Zealand Dancing Balls
most likely made with either palm leaves or flax. Maori. Usually called Poi now sadly not Dancing Balls. Sad. I can find where to buy them if that's what you're interested in but past that I have nothing. Why?!?!
74-2-58 Matchbox Bean Pods (if that's really what you are)
Sure they look like them. But they also look like what they call 7 different types of pods that all look the same.
74-2-39 Northwest Coast Paddles
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. probably cedar. probably haida. 3 catalog references. thank you.

Next time I need to learn to sit in one of the seats where they only have to have 4 objects instead.  If only I had known.

Lab Hours

Minimally delayed... woops.

About an hour and a half spent in the library searching through silver makers marks and silver manufacturing. I only found one mention of Simon Roseneu (sp?) And the German silver book that was supposed to be there was absent so the search continues
About two hours looking through catalogs on northwest coast art- the Haida art catalog proved useful. So there was one source. I also have my Spirit Within catalog and there is the other catalog from Dr. Castaneda that has the eye shape I was looking for (understanding northwest coast art)
About 45 minutes on the computer with Carrie trying to find different options for the card case.. some examples were found but they weren't off very good sites so I need to find some catalogs on them
An hour or so at home spent looking up pictures of items similar to try to get an idea of what catalogs to look into. I need botanical and natural history catalogs for the matchbox bean pods.

I need to look up my Maori Dancing Balls... for whatever reason those are the ones I've been neglecting.

Lab Hours

2 hours and 15 minutes spent docenting in the museum
15 minutes spent in the museum drawing and writing down information on the paddles
2 hours of research on my objects, mostly the paddles so far (I think they are Haida and made of alder but those are only guesses at the moment and from what I can tell the eye shape is made for an orca)
About 20 minutes looking and choosing items for the NAGPRA post (I kept searching for other Northwest Coast items which were surprisingly easy to find)

Repatriation

" The two cultural items are Tlingit ceremonial items collected near 
Juneau, AK, in the mid- to late 1800s.
    In 1902, the Field Museum of Natural History (Field Museum) 
purchased a large collection of Tlingit cultural items from George 
Thornton Emmons known as the Spuhn Collection. It is unknown whether 
Emmons or Carl Spuhn, a manager with the Northwest Trading Company, 
originally acquired the two cultural items. The requested items consist 
of a large wooden box drum painted with the design of a wolf (Wolf 
Drum) and a steel, double-bladed dagger decorated with a design of a 
shark (Shark Dagger). Field Museum records indicate that the Wolf Drum 
was acquired sometime before 1900 from a Chief of the Taku Tribe who 
originally lived at Taku Harbor, AK, and who later moved to Gastineau 
Channel below Juneau. Field Museum records indicate that the Shark 
Dagger was acquired before 1900, and came from the Auk tribe living in 
Juneau, AK. The short upper blade is ornamented as a ground shark which 
was the totemic emblem of the family of the owner. Its eyes and teeth 
are embellished with Abalone shell. The dagger appears to be hafted, in 
part, with copper.
    The cultural affiliation of the Wolf Drum is Taku Tlingit as 
indicated through museum records and consultation with representatives 
of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes (Central 
Council). The Central Council has requested the Drum on behalf of the 
Yanyeidi clan of the Taku Kwan. The cultural affiliation of the Shark 
Dagger is Auk Tlingit as indicated by museum records and by 
consultation evidence provided by the Central Council. Museum records 
indicate that the Shark Dagger belonged to the family of a principal 
chief of the Auk tribe living at ``Sin-ta-ka heenee'' (Juneau). The 
Central Council requested the Shark Dagger on behalf of the 
Wooshkeetaan clan of the Auk Kwan.
    The 2 cultural items have been identified as Native American sacred 
objects and objects of cultural patrimony through museum records, 
scholarly publications, primary documents, and consultation information 
provided by representatives of Central Council."

http://www.nps.gov/history/NAGPRA/FED_NOTICES/NAGPRADIR/nir0648.html 

 History and Description of the Cultural Item(s)

    The one sacred object and object of cultural patrimony is a Chilkat 
blanket (27.92.1/AE 580). Rochester Museum & Science Center catalog 
records show that on January 1, 1927, the Rochester Museum & Science 
Center (then Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences) purchased the 
Chilkat blanket from John G. Worth of New York City,

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NY. The records indicate that the Chilkat blanket is from Alaska but 
contain no additional provenience information.
    Based on consultation with the Central Council of the Tlingit & 
Haida Indian Tribes, the Rochester Museum & Science Center reasonably 
believes this cultural item is culturally affiliated with the Tlingit. 
Furthermore, the museum was also informed during consultation that the 
object is considered to be both a sacred object and an object of 
cultural patrimony. 

http://www.nps.gov/history/NAGPRA/FED_NOTICES/NAGPRADIR/nir0637.html 

Lab Hours

About 2 and a half hours going through catalog and working on the catalog review assignment.

Just very briefly. I got the Spirit Within catalog off of the list.  It's about the Northwest Coast so hopefully it will help me with the paddles!!

Museum Jobs

So part one is all about having museum experience, which until this exhibit I haven't had any.  I haven't searched for a job in the marked or volunteered quite yet.  I would love the opportunity but with my schedule it is difficult to try and add more on.  I have been told to volunteer in the lab this summer and through next year which I'm greatly considering.  On Burcaw's list I suppose that volunteer position would be through personal acquaintance since Dr. Fisher asked me to do it because I had him for Fieldwork in Archaeology last semester. 

Four Corners School of Outdoor Education seeks an Exhibits Developer/Coordinator to build exhibits for its new campus, the Canyon Country Discovery Center. Exhibits will be housed on a 48-acre campus in a 22,000 square foot building, containing a 4,000 square-foot, interactive science museum. Exhibits/ Learning Activity Stations will be based on a unifying theme of place-based education about the Colorado Plateau in 5 content areas. Candidates should have some professional experience in design practice, exhibit development, and building exhibits. Museum experience preferred, in trans-active exhibits, and expertise with wood and metal tools. Full-time, year-round salaried position with benefits, based in Monticello, Utah. Email jross@fourcornersschool.org for a hiring packet or download from www.fourcornersschool.org/about-fcs/employment

(western museums association)

While this is not a job I would want permanently I do think it would be greatly enjoyable.  I used to regularly go to something that sounds like what they are trying to do when I was a kid and I loved it.  I also think that some of my knowledge that I have gained already could be applied.

• Ability to mount images and text
• Some construction skills 
• Prior experience (ours) in fabricating and installing a museum exhibit

Lab Hours

Approximately 9 hours spent in the museum doing the installation.
Finally after working Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday its done!!! Thank the goodness

Lab Hours

Lab Hours:
Approximately 2 hours figuring out a much more exact layout of our section.
About 3 hours in the museum working on the coffin cases and the position and sizes needed for everything ( I need to get pictures of the cases!!)
About a half an hour checking blogs and keeping up to date
About 45 minutes typing up a condition report type thing for my objects- this is not completed but I will post it later. It gave me a much better idea of what I am still missing from my objects (dimensions, condition, number of parts, any damage or repair?... there is still much to look at in regards to all of them).
A very brief 20ish minute time frame where I tried to figure out when the silver heart box was made. No real luck so far. I'll keep working.

Lab Hours

Delayed:
About 2 and a half hours in the museum with my group putting things together
About 2 hours going back and forth from my blog/ my groups blogs and the discussion thread
About 45 minutes looking over everyone else's blogs to check on objects
About 40 minutes getting the spreadsheet for the artifacts done
About 30 minutes looking up images and emailing with Carrie trying to figure about which images from the Beardsley collection to use

A more exact sketch

Overall concept and ideas.

So here's what I have so far/ what I know we need:

Objects

On the wall:
Spear (if the Lyre bird feathers can't be posted than possibly having this underneath our name)
Lyre bird feathers (possibly posted on the wall around our group name)

Case 1:
Birds Nest
Emu egg
Emu broach
Match Box Bean Pods
Match Box Bean Pod Vessels
Possibly the Lyre bird feathers
Palm Fiber sash lining the bottom?

Case 2:
Maori cloak
Dancing Balls
Bark Cloth samples?
Snake knife

Text:
All of the objects
Worlds Fair text box
Cantata quote:

"But yesterday we had no place
On history's board and varied page;
But yesterday a savage race
Dominion owned where now we wage
The arts that from a grateful soil
Abundance bring, or proudly rear
The shrines wherein the priests of toil
Hold worship through the changing year;
The arts unknown to people rude
Yet can the poorest nation bless,
And make the wildest solitude"

James Cook quote?:

 "They lied like beasts of the forest, in roving parties, without arts of any kind, sleeping in summer like dogs, under the hollow sides of trees…"

We will probably want to include also part of the All the Worlds a Fair book quotes.
Also something from George Harris
Although in my sketches of it I haven't set up a specific spot for those

Images:

Map of Tanzania
Picture of the exhibition
Photo 1: picture of some flora... possibly (probably) flax
Photo 2: picture of fauna (Reece has some good pictures of this on his blog)
Photo 3: List of items/ resources from the exhibition
Photo 4: picture of aboriginals (Reece also has good pictures posted)
Photo 5: Morgan's classification of human stages
Photo 6: The photo of the man in the flax Maori cloak

3 additional photos from the Beardsley collection.  (Dr. Castaneda/ Carrie: If I could get access to the photos that we got from the Cal Academy????)

Props:
Past the hat that we were hoping to use I'm not really sure what else we needed. If anyone has ideas though I am up for it. 

Super rough sketch...

Obviously this all still needs to be nailed down but maybe closer

Desired Objects

I know Carrie is putting (or has put) a spreadsheet together, but I'm not sure how much of the Colonial Milieu team has on there that is staying/ relevant.  Here is an updated version of what we want.  It at the moment is without accession numbers (for the most part since some of them are mine I have the numbers)  and isn't 100% complete because my notebook is at home.  Whoops.
Based upon memory. What we want:
Lyre bird feathers (Reece)74-2-31
birds nest
emu egg - 74-2-13
emu egg broach?
Matchbox bean pods - 74-2-58
Matchbox bean pod vessels (Nancy) - 74-2-50
Maori cloak
Maori dancing balls - 74-2-45
Skirt(s) -I'm not sure how picky we are on which one we get/ use. Preferably a more decorative one that would look better on a wall, but since I'm not even convinced it would be on a wall I'm not super worried about it
The tapa cloth
There is a set of fabrics that I can't remember what I have it titled as

There are a couple more fabric type items that I'm pretty sure about, but I don't have my notebook and thus do not have the accession numbers for them yet so I will hold off on those.  I'm hoping to update this when I get home and have my notebook present.

World Fair

While I have literally only gotten 5 pages into All The Worlds A Fair (still the introduction) I already am seeing how included unilineal theory is being incorporated into world fairs. "But at the fairs, the idea of technological and national progress became laced with scientific racism" (Dr. Castaneda, this is part that you have underlined). While the book is about America and their culture it seems like a fairly easy transition towards colonized countries also putting on fairs and exhibitions (Tanzania).

Lab hours

Lab hours this week:
About an hour trying to mildly retweek our storyboard design
About half an hour trying to figure out how best to include Georges job history along with his father and grandfathers jobs (I was trying to avoid another timeline but that might be the only way to incorporate it)
An hour and a half looking through the book and trying to find information to be included. Lots of good quotes are in it but its hard to narrow it down.
About 20 minutes trying to figure out what needs to go in our text box so we can get all of that info for Nancy
About 45 minutes posting and scrolling through peoples blogs.
About 15 minutes on sacct on our group discussion board (which reminds me I haven't looked at that today).

I've been browsing the Official Record of the Tasmanian International Exhibition book that Professor Castaneda has posted. 
 https://archive.org/details/officialrecordof00launiala

That's the entirety of it, or at least it should bring you to the entirety of it.
If you look at the index it shows how much of the book/ exhibition was dedicated to the nature of Tasmania.
There is a portion that talks about how Tasmania was one of the healthiest colonies and how it had a much lower death rate than that of the European colonies. (I would post the actual portion, but I'm not sure how to get the picture of it.  It is on page 14).
There is also another section that talks about the large display made by the agriculturalists and horticulturalists of the colony on page 17
I also think that a portion of the Inaugural Cantata should be incorporated somehow. (page 39)
"But yesterday we had no place
On history's board and varied page;
But yesterday a savage race
Dominion owned where now we wage
The arts that from a grateful soil
Abundance bring, or proudly rear
The shrines wherein the priests of toil
Hold worship through the changing year;
The arts unknown to people rude
Yet can the poorest nation bless,
And make the wildest solitude"

Lab Hours

Well a slightly more productive and successful week for myself and my objects. I figured out at least something about the silver heart box which was basically an empty catalog card before so that was exciting. 

Lab Hours:
2 hours spent online researching silver makers marks and then posting about it
about 15 minutes spent in the museum reassessing the silver heart box so that I could look up the makers mark
about half an hour in the library with Abbie doing our deed of gift assignment
about half an hour spent trying to come up with ideas for our storyboard.

Hallelujah

This is not my object. I repeat not my object. Just a very good representation of it by the same manufacturer. Thank goodness and I have found it. It only took me an hour and a half of online silver stamp searching. 

This darn silver box

Really, don't mind me. I'm just posting some of the names I keep coming across that could have made the heart shaped silver box that I am having a difficult time placing. 

Simon Rosenau- b. 1839? Bad Kissingen.. whatever that means I will have to look up.  Hanau style.  supplier of antiques to the royal Bavarian court. exhibited 1893 chicago world's columbian exposition.

J.D. Schliessner/ son Daniel Philipp August Schleissne. Hanau.  exhibited 1893 chicago worlds columbian exposition and 1904 st. louis international exposition 

http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate__Init_S.html

Lab Hours

Unfortunately still not much to post.  I'm going to try to spend some more time in the library looking some stuff up, but some of my items are proving to be difficult.  Where would that silver heart shaped box have come from?? I may never know.  I need to stop by the museum again and look at it to see if it has anything on it that will help.
Past that I've still got geography wise: New Zealand, Spain, Townsend, and North West Coast... I would love to pin down a slightly more specific area but that might be as close as I'm getting.

Lab Hours:
2 1/2 hours researching geography and trying to figure out more specifics of where exactly my objects would have come from
half an hour trying to map out my objects
about 1 1/2 hours trying to search for similar items to mine that I can go see
half an hour spent trying to work out the different concepts that our "meeting of worlds" idea covers.

I'm hoping I can find something related to my objects or even the same as mine and go see them in person and see how that museum has them and what they are associated with.... this might not be a plausible idea with timing

Lab Hours

Well not much to say so far.
Mostly just been looking up my objects online and trying to figure out exactly where they are from and how they can be associated with the rest of the collection.
My Dancing Balls object are from New Zealand so I started there. I had never heard about the Maori girls, but they seem more popular than I had realized. They have an entire Catholic school in New Zealand.   I figure if we end up doing a timeline this object would have potentially been part of their life together or part of George's life before he met Alice. 
One of my objects is from Spain so I want to try to figure out who went to Spain and when. 
Two of my objects might end up proving difficult to determine where they are from, but only time will tell.

Lab hours:
A little over 3 hours was spent looking up items online.
About 45 minutes was spent trying to map out my objects and the lives of the Beardsley's, but without more information (potentially from Carrie) it's proving to be difficult trying to trace them on my own. 
About 20 minutes was spent trying to add everyone to my blog roll, which after I did ended up not even adding people. Apparently it will only let me do them separately as opposed to all of them at once.  
That was as much as I got to.  I still need to go back down the museum and take actual pictures of my objects as opposed to my phone pictures which didn't turn out as well as I would like.  I also need to try to talk to Carrie about what she knows of their travels over time. 

So, I have already gone to the Museum to figure out what my random assortment of numbers, accession numbers, were. 
My numbers were:
74-2-20
74-2-39
74-2-45
74-2-48
74-2-58a to 58j
Based strictly on the accession sheets on blackboard these objects are;
 20: heart shaped container with gold lining
 39: two North West Coast canoe paddles, painted.
 45: New Zealand dancing balls (thus the name of my blog)
 48 (which comes up as 49): metal and shell card case from Spain
 58: match box beans in box Australia

However, I did the accession sheet look-up process on blackboard after going to the Museum and receiving my items.  What can I say, I'm impatient.  The accession sheet had the base information but seeing the objects gave a better idea on what I was dealing with.  In addition to getting me my objects, Carrie also helped me gather my catalog card information. 

This is my record of my objects in addition to some of the information obtained from the cards inside the bags accompanying my objects
20: heart shaped container with gold interior, flower patterns
39: pair of paddles, painted, North West coast, wood, red and black design patterns
      they are also numbered: MIC 54A and MSC 54B
45: Dancing Balls: New Zealand. Balls such as these of twisted fiber and plaited palm leaf are used by girls while dancing.  Holding the string in the hand the balls are twirled to accent the rapid beat of the dance. (All on a card that came with them).
     Used by the Maori girls
     Also numbered: FIB 9, Beardsley 49
     Two grass like cylindrical balls held together by string/ twine, most likely leaves. 
48: On the card: Spain. metal and shell inlay, work. card case.
     Also numbered: MSC 44
     Silver card boz, shell: abalone, clasp, pearlesque, interior lined in red velvet
58: Also numbered: MSC 77
     Card: portion of a pod of the Queensland or Match box Bean, Port Towensend Queensland

I know. It's a fairly random assortment of items, but that's what I picked.  From just looking at some of the other people's that were there when I went (Nancy), there are some things that fit together. 

Well here's my first blog post for Museum Methods. I know, it's utterly fascinating so far. I can try to make promises that most of my future posts will be quite a bit more entertaining than this one, but they may or may not be.